Last Tuesday I was sitting at Sears waiting to get some new car tires installed and was forced to watch CNN. I was stuck in that waiting room for 2 hours watching Wolf Blitzer’s primetime election coverage in the “Situation Room”. First of all, Blitzer’s “Situation Room” is unrealistically more chaotic and fear inspiring than an actual military situation room.

The on-screen graphics look like a first-person-shooter war video game. So for 2 hours I watched as loudmouth campaign experts were being asked their opinions on how Hilary’s strategy needs to shift for the upcoming elections in Texas and Ohio. They interviewed Texans and repeatedly showed coverage from previous debates where Hilary changed her stance from friend to foe of Obama and back again. CNN’s coverage is another reminder of how mainstream media has become so accustomed to graphically yelling things to their audiences. Loud commentators, fast-paced graphics, informal criticisms are all things we have come to expect from most news programs and it is our fault for accepting it and relying on it.